There can be raw pain and bleeding where so many thousands see the inevitable ups and downs of only a game. C. L. R. James More Quotes by C. L. R. James More Quotes From C. L. R. James As the class struggle sharpens in the U.S. Marxism will come into its own as a great popular study. C. L. R. James popular-song struggle class Technological discoveries are the spermatozoa of social change. C. L. R. James social-change social discovery The most striking development of the great depression of 1929 is a profound skepticism of the future of contemporary society among large sections of the American people. C. L. R. James depression profound people It is not only that Germany has been defeated in the war, Kaiser Wilhelm's Germany was defeated. C. L. R. James defeated germany war One of the surest signs of the estimated changes in the consciousness of the American proletariat is to be found in the character of the demands now being put forward by the leadership. C. L. R. James demand leadership character I had a national and international reputation. I had written the history and articles. So I brought to the Trotskyist movement some international reputation. C. L. R. James articles reputation movement The late development of mass industrial organization in the United States has both stimulated and retarded the political development of the American working class. C. L. R. James political organization class An army is a miniature of the society which produces it. C. L. R. James produce army military In World War II the hostility and the exasperation resulting from the statification of the economy and the strain of the war have been directed as much against the government as against private capital. C. L. R. James government war world The Paris Commune was first and foremost a democracy. The government was a body elected by universal suffrage. C. L. R. James paris democracy government I must say the idea of a United Africa was nonsense. C. L. R. James nonsense united ideas The country has undergone a profound social upheaval, the greatest the proletariat has ever known. C. L. R. James upheaval profound country I was a Labour Party man but I found myself to the left of the Labour party in Nelson, militant as that was. I came to London and in a few months I was a Trotskyist. C. L. R. James london party men Capitalism has socialized production. It has brought thousands of people together in the factory and involved them in new social relationships. C. L. R. James social together people First of all, Bolshevism represents revolution and the revolutionary struggle. C. L. R. James revolution struggle firsts After World War I the resentment of the working class against all that it had to suffer was directed more against Morgan, Wall Street and private capital than the government. C. L. R. James wall government war Cricket is first and foremost a dramatic spectacle. It belongs with theatre, ballet, opera and the dance. C. L. R. James opera ballet theatre In the last quarter of the eighteenth century bourgeois Europe needed to emancipate itself from that combination of feudalism and commercial capitalism which we know as mercantilism. C. L. R. James century lasts europe The struggle for socialism is the struggle for proletarian (working class) democracy. Proletarian democracy is not the crown of socialism. Socialism is the result of proletarian democracy. To the degree that the proletariat mobilizes itself and the great masses of the people, the socialist revolution is advanced. The proletariat mobilizes itself as a self-acting force through its own committees, unions, parties, and other organizations. C. L. R. James party struggle self Today we ought to be able to see first that Booker T. Washington faced a situation in which he was seeking desperately for a way out, and he could see no way out except capitulation. C. L. R. James see situation today way
